Bios:John L. and Lucinda Caroline Moses: Fayette Co, Ga. Copyright © 2001 by Terry Jackson. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. mailto:jacksont@otelco.net ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ John L. and Lucinda Caroline Moses John L. Moses, son of Hiram Moses, was born January 22, 1836 in Fayette Co., GA. The love of his life was Lucinda Caroline Vickery, daughter of Thomas G. and Sarah Vickery. Lucinda was born April 22, 1837 in South Carolina. They married December 23, 1855 in Coweta Co., GA. In spite of a spinal defect, Lucinda bore John a brood of nine children over a twenty-one year span. They lost their first-born son, name Thomas G. for Lucinda's father, while still a toddler. Other children were Hiram J. (named for John's father), Rebecca Ann (Mrs. Robert Blackwood), Idella (Mrs. Wilkie J. Mauldin), Emma Loy (Mrs. Tapleigh S. Murphree), Talula Prudence (Mrs. Daniel B. Wood), Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry M. Jones), William J., and Charles A. Moses. John may or may not have known my great-great grandmother Idella was on the way when he traveled to Carroll Co., GA and enlisted in Co. H, 41st GA Infantry, CSA in 1862. He enlisted as a Corporal and progressed through the ranks to Sergeant. John became a POW at Vicksburg and agreed to take the Oath of Allegiance to be allowed to take his mortally wounded brother William Neal Moses home to Georgia. After burying his brother in the Cypress Grove Cemetery in New Orleans, John Moses found his way back to his regiment and continued to fight for his Southern way of life. After the war, John and his family remained in Carroll Co., GA. He purchased a lot of land for $750 in January 1871 and sold it in October for only $700. The two transactions were not recorded until March 1876. This appears to be when they left Carroll Co., along with several of Lucinda's brothers. Charlie Moses made the trek in his mother's womb and was born in Logan, Cullman Co., after which the Moses family traveled to Blount County to make their home. Lucinda Moses applied for a CSA pension in May 1897. In her application, she states she was widowed August 12, 1887. Blount Co. land records have a deed executed by John in December 1887 so he apparently died in 1888. Lucinda followed her mate to the grave March 4, 1902. They share a single marble monument serenely standing beneath two huge shade trees in Wynnville Cemetery. The headstone is adorned with a Masonic and Eastern Star emblem. A government marker has been placed at the foot of John's grave to acknowledge his CSA service. John and Lucinda's sons had few sons so the Moses name has nearly died out from this line. Even though their descendants no longer bear the proud Moses name, they have a strong sense of self-worth and confidence as well as a sense of persistence and tenacity that could only have been passed down from two such pioneers of life. Sources: Coweta Co., GA marriage records, Blount Co. marriage, land and census records, National Archives Compiled Service Records, Alabama CSA pension records.